Preposition vs. Infinitive

Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.

(obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

To place in a location before some other event occurs.

Example: ‘It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.’;

A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; - so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.

A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

Example: ‘He made a long preposition and oration.’;

a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word

(linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)

a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in ‘the man on the platform’, ‘she arrived after dinner’, ‘what did you do it for?’.

(grammar) the infinitive mood or mode (a grammatical mood)

(grammar) A non-finite verb form considered neutral with respect to inflection; depending on language variously found used with auxiliary verbs, in subordinate clauses, or acting as a gerund, and often as the dictionary form.

(grammar) A verbal noun formed from the infinitive of a verb.

(grammar) Formed with the infinitive.

Unlimited; not bounded or restricted; undefined.

Unlimited; not bounded or restricted; undefined.

An infinitive form of the verb; a verb in the infinitive mood; the infinitive mood.

In the manner of an infinitive mood.

the uninflected form of the verb

formed with the infinitive;

Example: ‘an infinitive phrase’;

not having inflections to indicate tense

Infinitive (abbreviated INF) is a linguistics term for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs. As with many linguistic concepts, there is not a single definition applicable to all languages.